This is a true story (not like those stories that Charlie,pa tells). My sons and I took a big jar of coins to our local supermarkets
coinstar machine to be counted. That coinstar is a great American invention..what a time saver. Well anyway as we were pouring our coins in the input cage my sons were dancing the happy dance watching the payout amount add up. I promised them that they could split the total.
Just when we were putting in the last few coins from out of the jar..the machine started making horrible noises and the monitor started to blink. Usually the lint, screws, paper clips,
Canadian coins, fuzz, slugs, and buttons get automatically sent to the reject bin. Well this time the machine somehow jammed..my sons panicked fearing the machine would wipe out our total and they would be left with nothing.
We tracked down a manager who was nice enough to take a quick look at the machine, he said it must be jammed with a foreign coin. He walked over to the service desk and made an announcement over the store intercom. Vinny please come to the coinstar machine with the key
looks like its another Canadian coin jam
Vinny came over and opened up the machine..sure enough after sticking his hand in the guts of the machine..he pulled out a Canadian cent. He reset the machine and we were rolling again to the tune of 80 bucks. Vinny showed us the offending coin it was indeed a Canadian cent but this one had a small hole drilled in it. It also had a small metal ring in the hole..it looked like someone was using it for a necklace charm.
Vinny said that he has seen a lot of these lately..it seems that the local pot heads are making charms out of them. They think the leaf pictured on the back of the coin is a cannabis leaf.
Hey at least the American pot heads found a good use for them.
